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Eradicating HIV in Black Communities Requires Systemic Change

If left unacknowledged, persistent racial and gender disparities in HIV transmission and treatment will continue to thwart any effort to curtail the pandemic.

Published
16 February 2019
From
Rewire.News
Ethnic and cultural minorities
Greg Millett On What Black People Can Learn About HIV Outreach

The vice president and director of public policy at amfAR knows what needs to change in HIV education.

Published
07 February 2019
From
HIV Plus
Women
For Women Living With HIV, A Trauma-Informed Approach To Care

At a San Francisco primary care clinic, trauma is recognized as a root cause of many health challenges.

Published
05 February 2019
From
Health Affairs
Structural factors
Climate shocks threaten gains against HIV in Africa, researchers say

In a study looking at the link between climate change and HIV infection since antiretroviral treatment drugs became widely available in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers found that severe drought threatens to drive new HIV infections.

Published
01 February 2019
From
Reuters
Structural factors
Drought in Lesotho heightened HIV risk in girls

Adolescent girls exposed to severe drought conditions in rural Lesotho had higher rates of HIV, were more likely to engage in high-risk behaviors, including sex work, and were more likely to drop out of school.

Published
25 January 2019
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Epidemiology
Micro-level mapping in Zimbabwe identifies key HIV hotspots

A detailed geographic analysis of Zimbabwe's HIV epidemic indicates the greatest concentrations of people living with HIV who lack treatment are in the country’s main cities and urban settlements.

Published
11 January 2019
From
Avert
Structural factors
Location inherently linked to unsuppressed viral load among young South African women

Multiple partners, migration, and living in an HIV ‘hotspot’ have been identified as key drivers of unsuppressed viral load among young women living with HIV in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Published
04 January 2019
From
AVERT
African migrants
HIV clinic's hardest battle in treating people is helping them to overcome the social stigma

Jason, who is using a pseudonym, is a heterosexual black man of African heritage. He is typical of the patients seen at the clinic in University Hospital Lewisham. There are 850 patients on the books, more than 50 per cent are heterosexual and most of African origin. Many live on the poverty line and struggle with mental health problems. But the biggest challenge facing the team is the issue of stigma.

Published
10 December 2018
From
Evening Standard
HIV prevention policy
Could R100 a Month Be Enough to Keep South Africa's Young Women HIV Free?

In a world hemmed by patriarchy and poverty, cash transfers could be the missing link in SA's HIV prevention programmes.

Published
29 November 2018
From
Bhekisisa
Structural factors
Intimate Partner Violence, Inequality and HIV Transmission

That gender-based violence and associated HIV vulnerabilities are situated in the context of disempowering political economies begs us to consider how such a confluence of factors is resisted to prevent violence and HIV transmission.

Published
29 November 2018
From
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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